Alyson Hannigan

Deaths in Film[]

none known

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Wish (1998) [Willow Rosenberg]: In an alternate reality created when Emma Caulfield grants Charisma Carpenter's wish, Alyson was killed and turned into a vampire at some point in the past. The vampire Alyson is impaled through the back on a piece of wood when Seth Green throws her against it during a battle with the vampires. She returns to life as her normal human self after the proper reality is restored.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Doppelgangland (1999) [Willow Rosenberg/Vamp Willow]: After the vampire Alyson is pulled out of her alternate reality from the point just before her death, she dies when she is returned to her reality at the moment she'd left it, and is once again impaled on a piece of wood by Seth Green.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Who Are You? (2000) [Willow Rosenberg]: Stabbed in the chest by Eliza Dushku (who possessed Sarah Michelle Gellar's body) in Eliza/Sarah's daydream; she survives the episode in reality.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Restless (2000) [Willow Rosenberg]: Life-force drained by Sharon Ferguson in Alyson's dream; she survives the episode in reality due to Sarah Michelle Gellar defeating Sharon before the dreams can turn fatal.

How I Met Your Mother: Double Date (2009) [Lily Aldrin]: In a dream/fantasy sequence, she dies of terminal hiccups with Jason Segel by her bedside. Alyson survives the episode in reality. (Played for comic effect.)
How I Met Your Mother: Platonish (2013) [Lily Aldrin]: In an elaborate scenario imagined by Neil Patrick Harris, Hannigan is killed in an explosion along with Cobie Smulders, Jason Segel when the bomb on Hannigan's chest goes off after Segel and Smulders refuse to meet the terrorists' demand to make out due to their extremely platonic relationship. Hannigan survives the episode in reality. (Played for comic effect.)